Siberia: Lost in Translation?

[Sarah J Young]

I'm not sure this is a particularly recent distinction, or one based
primarily on federal identites. Shalamov, for example, never refers
to Kolyma as 'Sibir'', but rather places them in opposition--Kolyma
is always and only Kolyma, 'Sibir'' is the mainland [materik].

Sarah Young
SSEES, UCL
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT


---- Original Message ----
From: paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Siberia: Lost in Translation?
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 04:51:13 -0400

>Sarah Hurst wrote:
>
>> The article about Siberia on Wikipedia is quite good:
>> 
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberia
>> 
>> I think people are probably more adamant now about the Far East not
>being
>> part of Siberia because Siberia and the Far East have been
>separated into
>> different federal districts. I don’t know, though, whether
>historically
>> people in the Far East have ever complained about being called
>Siberia like
>> the woman in Blagoveshchensk that you mention.
>
>The etymology appears to offer no basis for delineation, which must
>have 
>come later:
><http://starling.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/response.cgi?root=%2Fusr%2Flocal%2F
>share%2Fstarling%2Fmorpho&morpho=1&basename=%5Cusr%5Clocal%5Cshare%5C
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>
>-- 
>War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
>--
>Paul B. Gallagher
>pbg translations, inc.
>"Russian Translations That Read Like Originals"
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